Improvement in egg-carriers



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A. H. BRYANT.

Egg-Carriers.

N0. 134,031. Patented Dec.17,1872-.

WITNESSES. T R.

PATENT OFFICE.

ABNER H. BRYANT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN EGG-CARRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,031, dated December17, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABNER H. BRYANT, of New York, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvementin Egg-Carriers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference be- 7 ing had to the annexed drawing making a part ofthis specification and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a top view of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the same. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 aredetail views of the same. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of my invention.

My invention has relation to that class of egg-carriers usually formedof pasteboard and fashioned into conical or pyramidal cells; andconsists in the novel construction, hereinafter described, whereby suchcells are intended to have greater elasticity, permanence, and strengththan have heretofore been attained in such devices.

Aof the drawing represents a sheet or strip of pasteboard of arectangular shape, in which I cut, with a circular saw or other suitableinstrument, a series of horizontal slots, marked 0.

I next take another strip of pasteboard of the form shown on Fig. 4, andmarked B, and cut therein a series of vertical slots, marked 3 Thedistances between the slots 0 in Fig. 5 and the slots 3 in Fig. 4correspond precisely, and always indicate the size of the cells to beformed when the two strips of pasteboard are united, as hereinafterdescribed. I next fold or bend the strip A in such manner that thecenter of the bend shall be at the center of the slots 0, and at rightangles therewith, as shown by the dotted lines on Fig. 5. When thus bentor folded the strip A assumes the position and shape shown on Fig. 3.Finally, I pass the slots of the strip 13 into the slots of the strip A,and my cells are completed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The egg-carrier formed by the union of the strips A and B, havingstraight slots woven together, substantially as specified. V

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

ABNER H. BRYANT. Witnesses:

D. D. KANE, GEO. E. UPHAM.

